Comments on: Lunch, darling

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:01:24 +0000

Don’t writers and editors ever discuss the writer’s MS? What changes
are needed, why certain sections work/don’t work, and so forth?

Or is everything done by email nowadays? No face to face editor/writer
interaction except to eat, drink, and gossip?

By: trudi

trudi — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:19:05 +0000

After my first lunch with an editor I settled on the best description of the experience as: “We drank books and talked bubbly.”

By: hillary!

hillary! — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:04:19 +0000

Don’t you love it when you go in expecting one thing, and mainly you’re expecting it to go really really bad, you’ve imagined everything that could go horribly wrong, but then it turns out to be a complete BLAST! I love it when that happens.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:56:00 +0000

Hey, not all of us are regular -normal!!!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:23:20 +0000

I think the same nervousness that you and or your friend have about meeting an editor, are about the same when a fan gets to meet their favorite author.

When I first met Holly and Cassie a year ago, and then you and Scott a couple months ago, you wonder… “what will I say!”
And then you end up talking about your favorite books, other people, things you like at the Con… and it’s all very casual. I think overall everyone tends to over think things and situations. In the end, we’re all just regular people who want to talk about normal stuff.

By: person who asked

person who asked — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:58:19 +0000

Thanks, Justine! I think.

By: maureen

maureen — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:05:49 +0000

how is it that you are always so smart? everyone should listen to you. I do.

By: Red Wine » Lunch, darling

Red Wine » Lunch, darling — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:58:01 +0000

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By: American Singles » Lunch, darling

American Singles » Lunch, darling — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:37:30 +0000

[...] Justine Larbalestier wrote an interesting post today on Lunch, darlingHere’s a quick excerpt A friend will be in town next week to meet her agent and some editors who are interested in her writing. She is very nervous and asked me what to expect. I directed her to agent Kristin Nelson’s blog where a while back she gave the lowdown on the shennanigans that take place at agent-editor lunches. It’s shocking stuff! They eat food and gossip! Who’d’ve thunk it? I then revealed to my friend that the exact same thing happens at editor-author lunches. Food is et and (rarely) wine is drunk, a [...]